The Big Homie saw Argo. He said it was really intense.

 

 

Jiro makes sushi. He’s a bad man. But is he bad meaning bad? Or bad meaning good?

 

 

What does a music supervisor do? And why is the music in Celeste and Jesse Forever so dope? We wanted to know. So we asked Jon Hafter and Zach Cowie.

 

 

Spike Lee’s latest joint has a story flaw. A big, gaping story flaw.

 

 

To be perfectly frank, this is some of the realest shit I ever wrote.

 

 

Image via worldofsuperheroes.com We wanted to see all three. Last week, the Liberian Girl found an ad. It said the AMC in Georgetown was showing the first two Dark Knight movies this Thursday. And then the third one at midnight. I went to buy trilogy tickets. They were sold out. A week before the show. But they […]

 

 

[Image via Awards Daily] We hear it all the time: “The book was so much better than the movie.” It’s usually true. Filmmakers have so many storytelling devices at their disposal: beautifully composed moving images, the gift of sound, dynamic actors and clever editing, to name a few. Yet, the sum of those parts struggles to compete […]

 

 

Image via Khodorkovsky-movie.com No one ever accused Ronald Reagan of being a genius(*). So when he implored Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down this wall,” he couldn’t have known what he was asking his Soviet counterpart let loose. Four years after Reagan’s speech, the detritus of Communism littered the path to a post-Soviet Russia. The decade that followed […]

 

 

  Back when news leaked out of Pennsylvania’s Happy Valley that an assistant college football coach had been accused of raping/abusing a number of prepubescent boys, the world began to re-imagine the mythology of Joe Paterno. Surely he was not responsible for such an atrocity, some said. What a hypocrite, others cried. And then there were those […]

 

 

It is difficult to recover from one’s death. It’s unnatural, for one. Death is supposed to be final—the full stop. And the promises it brings of transition imply a new—or at least unknown—opportunity. A person is not supposed to be left to wallow in their own decay while the world marches on without them. And living through […]